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Palm oil and pulp companies with most burned land go unpunished as Indonesian forest fires rage
Despite the ongoing Indonesian forest fire crisis, no serious civil or administrative sanctions have been given to the ten palm oil companies with the largest areas of burned land from 2015 to 2018, new Greenpeace Indonesia mapping analysis revealed. The Indonesian government has also not revoked a single palm oil licence due to forest fires.
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Indonesian Forest Fires Crisis: Palm oil and pulp companies with largest burned land areas are going unpunished
A total of 3,403,000 hectares (ha) of land burned between the years 2015 and 2018 in Indonesia, according to analysis of official government burn scar data. In 2015 alone more than 2,600,000 ha of land burned. The fires that ravaged Indonesia in 2015 are considered one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 21st century…
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Why we’ve had enough of broken promises to protect forests
Today, while the Amazon fires capture international headlines, fires have also been raging here in Indonesia as well that harming the life of so many people.
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Greenpeace calls on fast food giants to take a stand against Bolsonaro’s Amazon destruction
As fires continue to ravage the Amazon, Greenpeace International has launched a campaign asking fast food giants Burger King, McDonald’s and KFC to reject goods linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon and across Brazil.
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Greenpeace halts engagement with Wilmar-Unilever-Mondelez over continued failure to take necessary action to cut deforestation from their supply chains
According to the recent IPCC report, land use, including deforestation, makes up 23% of greenhouse gas emissions. Companies such as Wilmar, Unilever and Mondelez must stop buying from any source that is linked to deforestation.
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Greenpeace Indonesia’s response to the planned move of the Indonesian capital to East Kalimantan
President Joko Widodo yesterday announced his government's decision to relocate the Indonesian capital to East Kalimantan, to an area straddling Penajam Paser Utara and Kutai Kartanegara districts. Greenpeace Indonesia has several environmental and governance concerns related to this decision as the move will require the conversion of forests and land for urban development, which will…
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One million hectares burned inside Forest Moratorium area, Greenpeace analysis shows
Greenpeace mapping analysis shows that 1.2 million ha of forest has been lost inside moratorium areas in the seven years since it was first introduced, at an average annual rate of 137,000 ha per year. In the seven years before the moratorium was introduced the annual average deforestation rate was 97,000 ha per year.
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President Jokowi must accept fires verdict and show he is serious about ending forest fires and people’s suffering
The Supreme Court of Indonesia last week rejected an appeal filed by President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo against a ruling that his national administration and its provincial counterpart failed to do enough to prevent the devastating forest fires which ravaged West and Central Kalimantan and many other provinces during 2015. Indonesia’s highest court reinforced the earlier…
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It’s only when something is gone that we realise how much we miss it.
The immense popularity of the 'Iamsterdam' sign provided the perfect means to shine a light on the deforestation that is decimating the world's largest remaining rainforest and to turn the letters into a solidarity message for the Amazon. With the inclusive 'I am', the message is also one of profound appreciation and respect for the…
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Greenpeace statement to Golden Agri-Resources response
"Eight years ago, GAR committed to forest protection and extended that to cleaning up its third-party suppliers in 2014. After five years we would have expected any serious company to have completed this. However, GAR is still at the stage of mapping pilots with no commitment to transparently map and monitor all suppliers at the…
